Fronts
Clouds
Water Cycle
Weather Instruments
Misc.
100
A warm air mass moving over a cold air mass, which brings light steady rain.
What is a warm front?
100
Clouds that are often seen with blue, sunny summer skies.
What is a cumulus cloud?
100
The sun's heat
What causes evaporation to occur?
100
A weather instrument that measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
100
Wind Heat Humidity Landscape
What is the causes varying weather conditions?
200
An air mass moving into another air mass causing precipitation.
What is a front?
200
Clouds that appear on a sunny day but indicate a change may be coming.
What is a cirrus cloud?
200
Precipitation after it has fallen to earth can be found in lakes, rivers, oceans, groundwater, etc.
What is collection (accumulation)?
200
A weather instrument that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
The amount of moisture (water vapor) in the air.
What is humidity?
300
A cold air mass moving under a warm air mass causing stormy weather.
What is a cold front?
300
Clouds that are seen on dark, dismal days with light rain or snow.
What are stratus clouds?
300
The process of cooling water vapor changing into drops of liquid water clinging together to form clouds.
What is condensation?
300
A weather instrument that measures temperature (the amount of heat in the surrounding area).
Thermometer
300
The strong winds that blow up to 6 miles above the earth's surface
What are jet streams?
400
The weather symbol is a series of sharks' teeth.
What is the symbol for a cold front?
400
Clouds that are associated with thunderstorms are are sometimes called thunderheads.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
The process of liquid water changing into water vapor and rising above the earth's surface.
What is evaporation?
400
A weather instrument that measures the amount of precipitation that has fallen to earth.
What is a rain gauge?
400
The type of pressure that indicates a sunny, clear, precipitation free day(@ 1040 mb).
What is high pressure?
500
The symbol is represented by a series of half circles ( or suns).
What is the symbol for a warm front?
500
Air Pressure,(@ 940 mb), that indicates a cloudy and precipitious day.
What is low pressure?
500
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail fall to earth from the clouds.
What is precipitation?
500
A weather instrument that is used to measure wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
500
West to East ------>
Which way do the weather patterns generally move across the United States?
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